Can you say genetically modified petroleum?  Yes!  1 out of 3 companies focused on “bugs!”  LS9 founding member, Vinod Khosla: Labeled the #1 VC multiple times by Forbes and Fortune.  Recently labeled as one of the nation’s most influential renewable fuel advocates.

LS9, Inc., the Renewable Petroleum Company^TM, is a privately-held biotechnology company pursuing industrial applications of synthetic biology to produce proprietary biofuels.

LS9 is developing Renewable Petroleum biofuels: new, clean, and sustainable fuels that fulfill our long and short term energy needs. Derived from diverse agricultural feedstocks, these high energy liquid fuels are renewable and compatible with current distribution and consumer infrastructure.

LS9’s products, currently under development, are designed to closely resemble petroleum derived fuels, but be renewable, clean, domestically produced, and cost competitive. In addition to biofuels, LS9 will also develop industrial biochemicals for specialty applications. (Hmmm…applicatios such as…?)